The Dance/Movement Therapy Alternate Route track (AR-DMT), seeks to inspire, develop and educate students in an age old paradigm—the use of dance and movement as a tool for healing the body, mind and spirit. The AR-DMT program is tailored to current and future therapists who seek to advance their practical knowledge of psychotherapy and the therapeutic relationship using the creative process involved in the art of dance. The AR-DMT offers sequential curriculum, taught by expert faculty, fulfilling the requirements set forth by the American Dance Therapy Association. The student that successfully completes AR-DMT coursework in addition to a Master’s in counseling or related field, will obtain the body of knowledge necessary to apply to the Dance Movement Therapy Certification Board for the R-DMT credential. Please also see admissions and application requirements.
Course Offerings
All classes except Anatomy/Kinesiology need faculty approval prior to enrollment. Courses are $425/credit (28 total credits) with payment plans available.
2020 Course Curriculum
Winter:
- LMA II - 3 credits (15 weeks)
Spring:
- DMT I - 2 credits (2 weekends)
- Cultural Humility - 2 credits (2 weekends)
Summer:
- LMA I - 1 credit (1 weekend)
- Experiential Anatomy/Kinesiology - 1 credit (1 weekend)
- Embodied Neuroscience II - 2 credits (2 weekends)
Fall:
- DMT Intro and Invitation - 2 credits (10 weeks)
- Group Dynamics - 3 credits (15 weeks)
- Embodied Neuroscience I - 2 credits (2 weekends)
Winter 2021:
- LMA III - 2 credits (2 weekends)
Internship:
- Starts anywhere after at least 3 credits of LMA, 6 credits of DMT Theory, and 9 credits of "General Training" courses. The student enrolls in 2 credits per semester until the Internship is complete.
Course Descriptions
Cultural Humility and Responsibility through the Power of Story
Instructor: Rosey Puloka
Location: Serenity@Sauganash, 4055 W. Peterson Ave., Chicago, IL 60646
Dates/Times: TBA
Cost: $850
For more information, email: embodiededucationinstitute@gmail.com
As dance/movement therapists we are bound by our code of ethics, which serves as our guide to upholding professional values and standards of conduct. Multicultural competence and promotion of social justice are included in the code. Additionally, dance/movement therapists are expected to examine how their own cultural background influences their place within the therapeutic relationship. In this course, students will be invited to examine and expand their own belief systems and world views in service of providing ethical and competent care for clients. The vehicle for this process will be conducted through story; the stories we have been told and the stories we tell ourselves, which all live in our bodies, our movement, and in our relationships. The code of ethics also charges dance/movement therapists with cultivating awareness of oppression, power, and privilege. In this course students will explore how power, privilege, oppression, and collective liberation intersect with our work as dance/movement therapists. Students will explore how key features of oppression show up on societal/cultural, institutional, interpersonal, and individual levels. By observing and making contact with the ways in which we have been affected by dynamics of privilege and oppression we can begin to repattern habitual ways of being that may interfere with cultivating connection with others. In this course, systematic oppression will be looked at through the lens of trauma providing students the opportunity to apply trauma-informed and healing centered approaches to their therapeutic work.
2 credit hours - Pending approval by the ADTA
Dance/Movement Therapy: An Introduction and an Invitation
Instructor: Kim Rothwell
Location: Serenity@Sauganash, 4055 W. Peterson Ave., Chicago, IL 60646
Dates/Times: Fall 2020
Cost: $850
For more information, email: embodiededucationinstitute@gmail.com
Course Description: This course provides a survey of the field of dance/movement therapy (DMT), including an introduction to the early developers of the profession, the historical context within the United States that lead to the development of the profession and the ADTA, and contemporary applications of DMT in today’s global world. The approach to teaching is embodied, self-reflective, and relational, offering an invitation for students to learn in ways that embed both the theory and the practice of DMT into the present moment lived experience. Early DMT developers will be acknowledged, and explored in an experiential manner recognizing psychological and movement/dance backgrounds. The historical situatedness of the profession of dance/movement therapy will be examined, while acknowledging the broader global context in which the use of dance and movement has been used across generations and cultures. By exploring the contemporary applications of DMT in the fields of psychology, wellness, rehabilitation, education, and childhood development, this course highlights the unique healing processes of DMT, in relationship to other mind/body approaches and to the creative arts therapies. In the end, this course will equip students to develop a working definition of DMT for themselves within historical, cultural, and personal contexts.
2 credit hours - Approved by the ADTA
Experimental Anatomy/Kinesiology
Instructor: Madeleine Reber
Location: Serenity@Sauganash, 4055 W. Peterson Ave., Chicago, IL 60646
Dates/Times: Summer 2020
Cost: $425
For more information, email: embodiededucationinstitute@gmail.com
Anatomy/Kinesiology will cover basic human anatomy with an overview of bony landmarks of the body, major muscle groups, and general workings of the musculoskeletal system. Students will begin to understand the complexities of the human body through movement, reading, drawing, writing, and hands-on partner exercises. Geared towards application of the body in motion for dancers, choreographers, dance/movement therapists and the like, that want to deepen their embodiment and understanding of the amazing ways our body works.
1 credit hour
Laban Movement Analysis I
Instructor: Stacey Hurst
Location: Serenity@Sauganash, 4055 W. Peterson Ave., Chicago, IL 60646
Dates/Times: Summer 2020
Cost: $425
Call Stacey at 312-543-2133 or email shurst.eeic@gmail.com with questions
Course Description: Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) and Bartenieff Fundamentals (BF) give dance/movement therapists a common language to study movement and its developmental aspects, informing our relationship to self, other, and the environment. LMA I contexts LMA and BF in history and within the field of dance/movement therapy. This course provides: a framework for how to structure and approach movement observation, an understanding of the cultural and therapeutic implications of Body Knowledge/Body Prejudice and a forum for the student to identify their own movement preferences and limitations. LMA I will also provide a general overview of the core principles of movement and of Rudolf Laban’s taxonomy of human movement. The course will be grounded through both didactic and movement experientials to support multiple learning preferences. LMA I will provide the foundation for all other LMA classes to follow.
1 credit hour - Approved by the ADTA
Laban Movement Analysis II
Instructor: Stacey Hurst
Location: TBA
Dates: Beginning February 4
Cost: $1275
For more information, email: embodiededucationinstitute@gmail.com
Course Description: This course will continue the process of providing knowledge and skill development regarding the use of the Laban Taxonomy of Movement Analysis in order to observe, document, describe, and assess human movement behavior through the lens of BODY and EFFORT categories (SPACE and SHAPE will be taught in LMA III). In addition, students will gain more information about Irmgard Bartenieff’s contributions to LMA and begin to create Laban/Bartenieff informed DMT warm-ups. Students will continue to explore how sociocultural content and psychological defenses manifest in body/movement and how sociocultural background and “protection” informs movement preferences. The written work and verbal discussions will be used, not only to gain knowledge and process experiences, but to practice communicating the material to other professionals outside of our field.
3 credit hours - Pending approval by the ADTA
Prerequisite: LMA I
The Neuroscience of Embodied Presence: Moving within the Inter-subjective Realm
Instructor: Kris Eric Larsen LCPC, BC-DMT, GLCMA
Location: Serenity@Sauganash, 4055 W. Peterson Ave., Chicago, IL 60646
Dates/Times: February 21-23 and February 28-March 1
Cost: $850
For more information, email: klarsen.eeic@gmail.com
Course Description: Embedded within the intersubjective relationship is the opportunity for present moment experiences of self and other. As dance/movement therapists we are utilizing our bodies as intuitive processors within the therapeutic relationship and thus in need to be conscious of how we create presence in our own bodies for self-care and within the relationship for intervention and healing. Current discoveries in neuroscience and mindfulness find the field of psychology integrating the mind and the body in ways that are both new and creative. This course introduces students to in-roads for creating presence, mindful self-care, identification of personal creative process and critical inquiry of neuroscientific discussions that integrate and navigate the flow of mind and the flow of bodies in movement.
2 credit hours - Approved by the ADTA
Prerequisite: Acceptance into EEIC program
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